Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 21, 1914, Page 7

THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA,, OCT. 21, 1914. See here, Hor- i HEOEOE PRI O BOOOBOEOY % WE’O@O‘S’O‘S'?' Do You Want .Freéfi‘Clean 3 GROCERIES? We are at your service for anything carried by an Up-to date Grocery Phone orders glven prompt attention - can’t use the place. ace,” he added, turiing to his friend, “I'm sick and tired of this whole business. I'm ashamed to go back home. I have a brother out West pretty well fixed. I think I'll just go out and try my luck with him.” “But you might get something out of the place here,” suggested Horace. “Not much, I fancy,” submitted the man who owned the land. “My lease holds, and of course you forfeit the building if you don’t pay the ground . rent. The only way to get anythlngi out of it is to lease the building to | some one, or start in business in it.” ‘ ——————— e GETTING A STANT By VICTOR RADCLIFFE. W’Q‘me DD | “Horace, I appoint you my confi- ! dential secretary, terms to be decided | as soon as I realize on my inheritance.” “Very kind, and having no present | position I'll be glad to accept your of- | fer,” sald Horace Lee. “Much of a Lower Prices on rord Cars Effective August Ist, 1914 to Augustist, 1915 and guaranteed against any reduction during that time. All cars tully equipped SUSPOEOSUSOEQ PP PO D POTRE i 0. b. Detroit. | | legacy?” “Well, H r led aw Runabout... ... ... $440 o { “I don't know, but my cousin, Noah J your :ln;e. g;:::,bacrtot:::hw::xtz ol . Touring Car 490 Cleave, had a good deal of money once. gnq ']} give you a bill of sale of ®. I -------- : - OPOLOHAE CEQTOD IAFA BT ITASIBOHOSHUIOHTT S TIPASAS Town Car... ... ... 690 | O course it must be quite an amount. won't bother with the proposition,” de- FCODOUSIRG TERFCIELEE Lo S i e i The letter from the lawyer at Boone- ville says I am sole legatee. I'm go- | ing to give up my job here. I'm going to enjoy life and luxuriate, and also you. I've got eome literary ideas— { you shall jot them down as they come termined Grey. “I'll do it, and work something out of it,” said Horace. “I'm thinking hard. I believe I see a way to use that building. Name a price, give me time to pay you and I'll try the specu- Buyers to Share in Profits All retail buyers of new Ford cars from August 1st, 1914 to August Ist, 1915 will share in the profits of the company to the KELLEY'S BARRED Plymouth Rocks extent of $40 to $60 per car, on each car | to me.” lation.” they buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de- ‘See here, Winfield,” said blunt, prac- ' «ngnsense! Il give it to you.” BOTH MATINGS ,tical Horace, “I'm friend enough of yours to give you some advice. Don’t drop your position until you find out Finally, however, Grey consented to take a note for $50. Then he left on [ wiiat voue cousin haniiart you. iDon't the next train for the West. Horace you. Don't went back to the shop. He had a talk | begin spending your fortune before _with the landowner, got some new you know what it amounts to.” ' ideas and looked over the inside. liver 300,000 new Ford cars during that pe- riod. Ask us for particulars FORD MOTOR COMPANY Lake and Auro and Supply Co. Better now than ever before Hign class breeding birds at reasonable prices. Fgys from POLK COUNTY AGENTS. 80 EEPIPMIPPEEIPOBIGIDLLIIEIEE P Lakeland Steam To the Fed oo Sl . B. STREATER ONTRACTOR AND BUILDER - laving had twenty-one years’ experience in building contracting in Lakeland and vicinity, I feel competent render the best services in this line. If comtemplating ilding, will be pleased to furnish estimates and all infor- tion. All work guaranteed. i one 169. J. B. STREATER. Let Us Supply Your Needs VissyOrange Clippers Spruce Pine Picking Ladders Cement Coated Box Nails k %k %k % Avery’s Orange Plows American Field Fence Cyclone Ornamental Fence * ok kX Everything usually carried in an up-to-date Hardware Store WILSO!I ; o your time.” “Oh, I'm quite sure it must be some- | thing substantial,” insisted the opti- mistic Winfield Grey. *“Anyhow, I want you to run down with me to Booneville till I take possession of the estate. I'll pay your expenses and for Horace was willing. He was unem- ployed just now. It was his own fault. He had worked for three years for a local firm—mean, stingy and unap- HARDWARE CO. 1% | | g e —— c———| ——— | They Located the Shop In Question. was to try to get some capital to make a start for himself in a modest way. H Dora Wayne, to whom he was en- gaged, had scolded him gently for giv- ing up a small but steady income, but | Horace was ambitious and energetic. So Horace started with Grey for Booneville, a little city about fifty miles distant. Grey had togged him- self out in great style in accordance with the grandeur he, favored heir to a fortune, should assume. He invited all his old working chums to *“a grand blowout” upon his return. He ar- ranged to buy an expensive trotting team and turnout. to share his first ride in that model of swiftness and elegance. Horace wondered if it could be possible that however. An enormous disappointment greet- ed Winfleld Grey when he reached Booneville. The lawyer who had writ- ten him informing him that his cousin had lost all he had in unwise specu- lations. “All there is left outside of paying his debts,” advised the attorney, “is a | little shop on Main street and that is on leased ground. It seems that your cousin took a fancy to a young plumber and tried to reform him. He built the | shop, making it look more like a parlor than a place of businese. His protege sold the equipment, put the money in his pocket and sloped. The building is yours, though I don’t believe you can get much out of it.” Grey was so disgusted and disap- pointed that Horace could scarcely pre- vall upon him to visit his meager in- | heritance. They located the shop in question. It was queerly incongruoue for its rude surroundings, brand new, gaudily painted, a ten by thirty structure more adapted for the office of some plant than for real work. A plate glass win- | dow took up nearly the entire front. It | was bare of furniture inside, where only a barrel or two showed. | On the square roof on four gides was | a sign. It read “Plumbing.” The let- | ters were painted in dazzling gilt. The | gigns etared an onlooker in the face | conspicuously from the four cardinal points of the compass. | 1 say” observed Horace, “those | signs must have cost a fortune.” | “Hyh!" snorted Gray—“what good | are they to me? I don’t want to go ! {nto the plumbing business!” Just here a man came up. He looked | over the two visitors critically. “] own the land here,” he remarked “Any Interest in the property ?” “Yes,” answered Grey shortly, “I've {nherited this shanty.” “Well, I've given a ten years’ lease on the land. Who am 1 to look to for the ground rent?” “Not 1,” retorted Grey sourly; “p with plumbers supplies, the other with ‘ a babbitt metal composition. Then he : i sought out a local plumbing establish- | | ment and sold the stuff for $75. i g The l next day they disappeared. ! ! . asked the curious land owner. | down the street. He knew the Waynes pretty well and invited Dora ' his friend meditated becoming his rival. He felt pretty safe about Dora, He found one of the barrels filled “Those signs,” he reflected. “What you done with the signs?” “Sold ’'em,” replied Horace. “You! | shoemaker named Blum a little ways 1 sawed out his name owner, much amused and interested. a little repair shop. I like your ways and I'll finance the proposition on shares.” “Done!” announced Horace prompt- 1y and took the train home that after- | noon, to report to Dora and start in . on his new independent business ca-!% reer. | “Say, we talked about your starting | o a2 L A U st see, one I got rid of to that plumber JERFLHDERSOEHITOFIPOND CVLOFOTOTRIOIOIATOFABATOEAE ] & (F YOU WANT YOUR SHIRTS AND COLLARS ') loct) fromeun, Ses, W8 WWar | see ono I got rid of to that plumbor S promising and resigned. Now his idea ;"o\ .4 o the P on the second n’"d[ ° LAUN DERED The VERY BEST ,‘g P’w"‘” z | & lumber man took it. Takimg off the | Helnz P r F @ Wfifi S P and L left ‘Umber’ Well, that! Send Them E Gy B | struck a paint shop man. There's a 3 3 | We are better equipped than [5 o0 537 for him. Everybody happy and I'm : f ) ) b i 3 ¢ accident t S Lau ndry ever for giving you high grade & ; gromier | PLumns | $42 ahead.” g cident, but promises to be here nmrasmsanazsscemea Laundry Work, Q#0080 § — | “Youwll do!” chuckled the lnnd-‘ 3 Now, it strangely happened that on | the same train, also homeward bound, was Dora's father. Naturally he was man who had been “shining around”! his favorite daughter. By piecemeal the story of Grey's. inheritance came out. The rest of thel eircumstance was finally related. “And you're thinking of moving to Booneville and starting in business, eh?” propounded Mr. Wayne. “That's it,” assented Horace. “You sce, I'm a pretty fair tinker, and the man who is going to back me says there is plenty of work to pick up.” “What about Dora?” submitted Mr. Wayne archly. Y “Why, you know we are of the kind willing to work and wait. I asked you once for your approval to the engage- ment, but—" “Oh, you've got some practical pros- pects now,” interrupted the wise- headed Mr. Wayne. “You've proved you know how to grasp an opportuni- | ty, young man, and you can have my daughter.” (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) How One of the World’'s Greatest Songbirds Was Discovered by Chance. Many years ago a mald employed by Miss Lundberg, a famous dancer of the Royal Opera in Stockholm, was given a holiday by her mistress and set out to take a walk. Passing a shabby little house in the poorest section of the city she heard a child’s | tully fresh and beautiful, and, look- ing up, she sayw a little girl sitting kitten. In great excitement she rushed to her mistress and told her of the exquisite voice she had heard. Miss Lundberg was somewhat skep- tical, but finally went to the house and heard the sweet song. She, too, was convinced of the great natural beauty of the child’s voice and report ed it to Croelius, the singing master of the opera. Croelius was also somewhat skep- tical at first, but at Miss Lundberg’s request he, too, went and, standing on the sidewalk, heard the child sing. Enraptured in’ turn, he told Count Buke, manager of the Royal Opera, and arrangements were made by count. She was at once taken as a free pupil in the Royal Opera school and | thereafter received the best instruc- tion Sweden could give. The child | was Jenny Lind, the famous “Swedish | Nightingale.”"—Ladies’ Home Journal. Rhetorical Embellishments. “What did you bring that parrot tant suffragette meeting. “To help out,” replied the orator. | “There are some things a lady can't | say, and whenever I give the signal ’thls parrot swears profusely.” i And Some One Must Pay. Officer—“Well, was the lady pleased ! with the flowers I sent her?” | Private—"Yes, lieutenant, so much | so that she forgot to give me a tp.” I—Jomal Amusant. VOICE EF A LITTLE ,CHILD|| I | voice, which seemed to her wonder- near the window singing to a pet: which the little girl sang for the l | | for?” asked the manager of the mili- ' IR €~ SU D o OO ! interested in the doing of a young'% & ey gwww*mwa«smummwwwmmmum highjclass pens for hatching. Write ‘me before ordering else- where, H. L. KELLtY, Gri‘fin, Fla = e o ——— e r—— som—ar— Demonstrator failed to get here last Saturday on account Saturday, October 24th All Ladies invited to call and be served Don’t Miss It. with Samples. New Goods Arriving Daily My Store Clean, San- itary, Free from Rats and Roaches. FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES DAILY My Line is as Fine as any in Town. Yours to Serve in Groceries, Feed, Seed and Fertilizer. D. B. 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